2023

With the onset of winter construction workers in Delhi begin to worry about the likely ban on construction work which has been imposed generally during the winter in recent years, related to efforts to reduce the level and adverse impact of pollution and smog. Although several workers feel that smaller-scale construction work does not really lead to so much dust and the dust level can be reduced further by efforts, their views are hardly ever considered by the decision-takers and they have (…)

Preamble: “Our knowledge and control of the natural world, now science is seen as coping with many uncertainties in policy issues of risk and the environment. In response, new styles of scientific activity are being developed. The reductionist, analytical worldview which divides systems into ever smaller elements, studied by ever more esoteric specialism, is being replaced by a systemic, synthetic and humanistic approach. The old dichotomies of facts and values, and of knowledge and (…)

The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims is commemorated on the third Sunday of November each year. But for those who have lost loved ones to road crashes, every day is a reminder of a preventable tragedy, writes a mother who started a road safety foundation after a carelessly driven school bus in Jaipur killed her teenage daughter
by Dr. Mridul Bhasin
In 1999, my 17-year old daughter was killed by an out-of-control bus. The driver had previous infractions of drunk (…)

Abstract: On public perception, Odisha remains the poorest state but things were different in the first half 19th century. The state was bubbling with economic activities. The whole of coastal Odisha had certain key industries like Salt industry and shipbuilding industry. WW Hunter in his Statistical Account of District of Balesore tells these facts. recognizes the fact. But a story writer and novelist Fakirmohan Senapati has brought the political economy as the subtext in his story. In (…)

Birsa Munda, born on November 15, 1875 in Ulihatu village (present Jharkhand) in British times, died mysteriously – reportedly of cholera, but likely poisoned – as an undertrial in Ranchi Central Jail on June 9, 1900. But why was Birsa Munda in jail? He had committed the “crime” of challenging the mighty ruling British, whose Christian missionaries were engaged in conversion activities. He also militantly led Adivasi people in open revolt against government-sanctioned land-grabbing by (…)

In the recently released Global Hunger Index (GHI) for 2023, India has been ranked at the 111th position out of 125 countries. This marks a slight decline from its position in 2022, when it was ranked 107th out of 121 countries. The report highlights a concerning trend of increasing undernourishment on a global scale since 2017.
Undernourishment is a critical component in calculating GHI scores, and it has seen a significant rise from 572 million to approximately 735 million people within (…)

There was a leader of a political party who committed adultery upon his mentor and friend’s much married wife and produced a child from this liaison. He rose to the highest position in the country. By then everyone knew of this extra marital affair and its outcome. The lady became his mistress, not wife and her poor husband was banished to Agyatvas (oblivion). Everyone knew who the leader was and which party he belonged to but I prefer not to mention any names here for this party preached (…)

by Radhika Kumar, Gaurav Raj, Kashish Sharma, Priyanshu Vats, Sanskriti, Shubhangi Saini, Shantanu Deepak, Sonakshi Agrawal and Yashasvi Bhatnagar
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Abstract
The university is an important space that enables student initiation into democratic politics and youth activism. Starting in 1949, the practice of holding elections to a student’s union enabled cultivation of student leadership. As the university expanded and voters increased, the scale of student mobilisation and (…)

What is home:
it is the shade of trees on my way to school before they were uprooted.
It is my grandparents’ black-and-white wedding photo before the walls crumbled.
It is my uncle’s prayer rug, where dozens of ants slept on wintry nights before it was looted and put in a museum.
It is the oven my mother used to bake bread and roast chicken before a bomb reduced our house to ashes.
It is the café where I watched football matches and played—
My child stops me: Can a four-letter (…)

When One fine day When the Minister For Internal and External Affairs Fell down from his armchair When he was reading the story of his life Written by a famous author His head hit the floor. And when he got up from the fall He started speaking exactly The opposite Of what he was thinking. And then the masses applauded Not knowing Of This terrible fall Yes, Yes. Applauded Much more than they applauded yesterday When the Minister For Internal and External Affairs Spoke Of growing corn from (…)